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My Cup Of Tea: Get your Aussie on: defining the authenticity of Australian actors
Australian screen production is still a closed shop and Aussie actors are fighting to keep it that way.
Guy Rundle: Rundle in Cannes: Oh, for a few spare invitations
In a third-floor apartment, Guy Rundle brushes elbows with a cinema great, and contemplates the throng of hopefuls lining the streets as Cannes begins to wind down.
Guy Rundle: Rundle in Cannes (yes, we hate him too), where money talks and parties rule
Crikey’s intrepid Guy Rundle has made his way to Cannes — where you don’t need to see any films, but you do need to talk about film funding.
How the film industry can thrive in a sea of pirates
India, Nigeria and China are all havens for film piracy — yet they’re the three largest film industries in the world. So how do they make it work when Hollywood can’t?
Tinseltown loses its glitter
Locations around the world now offer tax breaks and incentives for film studios, and California is feeling the burn as movie production abandons the Hollywood studio set. Is Hollywood no longer the home of American blockbusters?
Why Avatar’s “box office success” is bull
Avatar’s claim to be “highest-grossing film of all time” is only correct if you don’t take into account ticket price inflation, foreign currency fluctuations and surcharges on 3-D movie screens. Otherwise, it wouldn’t even make the top 10.
Will Ferrell: Hollywood’s most overpaid star
Forbes has compiled a list of the 10 most overpaid actors in Hollywood. Coming in at number one is Will Ferrell, whose recent film, Land of the Lost, earned only $65 million on an estimated budget of $100 million.
Putting classic movies on the map
MovieFill has drawn up a world map pinpointing the location (within the film’s narrative, not the filming location) of every Academy Awards “Best Picture” winner. Hot tip, Hollywood: New York and London are gold-mines.
Sony attempts to revive the “home theatre”
In the face of declining DVD sales and an unstable box office, Sony is attempting to sell film companies on the idea of releasing their movies as $40 downloads for internet-connected TVs after they’re released in theatres, but before they’re available on DVD.
What Hollywood can learn from the films of 2009
What lessons will film-makers take away from blockbusters and bombs of the 2009 Hollywood box office? Secure a big budget, make a sequel, animate it, add some dinosaurs and make sure people are saying nice things about you on Twitter.
Twitter cuts through Hollywood hype
Twitter speeds up word of mouth so quickly, it is out-pacing Hollywood’s PR machine, reports Michael Sragow: if a movie stinks, everybody knows within hours of the premiere.
Hollywood feels the pinch with film production at standstill
Hollywood’s movie production has plummeted in the global financial crisis, sending 75-80% of Los Angeles-based technicians and film crew workers to the unemployment line.
Interview with Russian filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy
In Australia for a few days to promote his acclaimed drama Tulpan, film-maker Sergei Dvortsevoy sat down for a chat with Cinetology.
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Interview with Sergei Dvortsevoy
Cinetology interviews Russian film-maker and Tulpan director, Sergei Dvortsevoy.
A chilling vision of cinema’s future: rumbling buttocks and Vin Diesel
D-Box’s website claims their proudest inventions - vibrating movie seats - will enable moviegoers to “live the action onscreen with an unmatched realism.”
Fairfax goes for the unpaid underbelly of Australian acting
The local film industry is notoriously frugal when it comes to paying proper wages, but it seems Fairfax Digital hoped to go one better, writes Andrew Crook.
New start for film industry?
Along with new and substantial funding for completed films in the form of a tax rebate, introduced in the final budget of the Howard era, the launch of Screen Australia represents the most significant change to this industry in decades, writes David Curl.
A question of intent: losing tax offsets in the film industry
The Pacific Film and Television Commission and the Film Finance Corporation have very different interpretations of what the FFC means when it says the word “intention”. At stake is a lot of money, writes Alex Prior.
